Slider showing up on top of events page

[Elizabeth]

Hi. On the events page http://21a.a0a.myftpupload.com/events/ the slider (that is set to only display on the home page) is showing up before the calendar. Individual events do not show the slider http://21a.a0a.myftpupload.com/event/fundraising-reception-for-stavros-anthony-campaign/

It does not happen when I switch to the 2014 theme.

I can’t figure this one out at all! Thanks for your help.

eliz

[Barry]

Hi there Eliz,

Sorry to hear you are encountering difficulties.

I see your note that the problem does not happen with Twenty Fourteen, but I just want to confirm: is the slider an integral part of your Genesis child theme, or is it generated by a separate plugin?

Thanks!

[Elizabeth]

Thanks Barry. The plugin is not part of the theme. It is the Meta Slider Pro https://www.metaslider.com/ I’ve used the slider a few times but never combined with the Events Calendar.

[Barry]

OK – and just for the avoidance of any doubt – when you tested with Twenty Fourteen was the slider still configured in the same way (ie, still active and set to display on the home page only)?

[Elizabeth]

Well, here’s the thing with that. In 2014 it doesn’t show up on the events page. But, in 2014 I don’t know how I would set the slider to show up on the home page. I’m using a shortcode in a widget for the homepage slider now.

I’m using the Dynamik theme for this site. There is a setting there to include the slider on the home page and when activated a widget becomes available for it to place any code.

[Barry]

OK. Sorry for all these questions – but I’m just trying to build a better picture of the problem 🙂

I’m using the Dynamik theme for this site. There is a setting there to include the slider on the home page and when activated a widget becomes available for it to place any code.

So is this a preferred plugin that the Dynamik theme/its authors recommend? That is, does this theme setting apply specifically to the metaslider.com slider plugin?

Also, when you say that a widget becomes available to position it on the homepage, do you mean a regular “sidebar widget” (even if the sidebar you’re placing it in visually doesn’t look like a sidebar)?

Something that I’m wondering about here is if you could install something like Widget Logic and add some further constraints to try and “lock it down” to the homepage only.

[Elizabeth]

No problem with the questions. They can only help!

I don’t think it is really a “preferred” plugin although I did find out about it from a forum post there. The theme does not require that particular slider…in fact I’ve used other type sliders there (on different sites).

Yes, it is a “sidebar widget” that becomes available. But now I just discovered something I should have noticed before. My shortcode is NOT in the slider sidebar widget but in the EZ Feature Top widget. The same parameters apply though about when it is activated.

Now, this is a little interesting. I tried the Widget Logic plugin and put is_home() as the widget logic. Now the slider still shows up only on the home page but now an empty EZ Feature Top #1 widget shows up on the events page. http://21a.a0a.myftpupload.com/events/ I left it that way so you can see it.

So sorry about being mistaken about where I put the darn code!

[Elizabeth]

Just noticed and maybe I didn’t realize it before. But I just left a response and it doesn’t show up here. Maybe you have to approve it or something. But I want to make sure you got it. So this is kind of testing that too 🙂

[Barry]

We have had an issue with some over-aggressive anti-spam measures, which might have caused that – I’ll try to resolve it manually (apologies for the inconvenience). Update: recovered the missing reply!

[Barry]

Apologies once again about your missing reply (now recovered, see above).

So if I’m understanding things correctly, a simple is_home() conditional in Widget Logic behaves as expected, however when you configure EZ Feature Top to only display something on the homepage it misbehaves – is that accurate (ie, the issue is within the logic used by EZ Feature Top)?

Also … is EZ Feature Top an integral part of your theme (I see it seems to be by Catalyst – is that also your theme vendor)? Could it be worth approaching them and pointing out this strange difference in behaviour?

Certainly if they could summarize the sort of approach they are using to detect if the visitor is on the homepage we might be able to shed some further light on the problem 🙂

[Elizabeth]

Oh man, I am having to think way too hard 🙂 But there has to be some sort of logic here.

You are correct that it is a Catalyst (Cobalt Apps) theme builder. I’m going to contact them and see if they can give any insight to it. The EZ Feature top widget is an integral part of the theme builder. The Feature Top can be set with one, two, or three widgets in it. I’m fairly sure about those numbers, but it can definitely have more than one. I just have it set for one so I can have a full-screen slider in it.

I’m also wondering what it is that the Events Calendar goes on. Seems like it is a page, but not in my list of pages. Since the problem is only happening on the page where the Events Calendar is it makes me wonder what exactly it is. Hope that made sense.

Thanks so much for helping me with this! Much appreciated.

[Barry]

No problem 🙂

I’m also wondering what it is that the Events Calendar goes on. Seems like it is a page, but not in my list of pages. Since the problem is only happening on the page where the Events Calendar is it makes me wonder what exactly it is. Hope that made sense.

Great question!

It’s a custom view, rather than a page, and shares a lot in common with a tag or category archive. Suppose for example that you have a “Latest News” category: typically you would find a page listing all blog posts in that category at example.com/category/latest-news – however, you will find no such entry in your list of pages.

Similarly, example.com/events can be thought of as an archive of events. There’s no way to edit the archive as a single entity – just as there isn’t with a blog category (besides creating/deleting it) – but nonetheless it’s a perfectly valid construct, just not a page in the regular WordPress sense of the word.

Does that clarify things?

[Elizabeth]

Good News! I went over to the Cobalt Apps forum and started searching around. I found some CSS to fix the problem!

.tribe-filter-live #ez-feature-top-container-wrap {
display: none;
} 

One person there said, “The Events Calendar is most likely using front-page.php to render the page. See if there is a way to create a version of a single.php for the event calendar.” Not sure if that has anything to do with it.

Anyway, I’m happy the CSS worked!

Thanks for heading me in the right direction.

[Elizabeth]

Looks like we cross posted. I kept thinking maybe it was a category but couldn’t find it there either. Thanks for the explanation. Good to know.

[Barry]

Hi Elizabeth 🙂

The Events Calendar is most likely using front-page.php to render the page.

Actually we do not do this, at least not by default – though depending on the theme it’s certainly possible to select this in Events → Settings → Display if you really want to.

I kept thinking maybe it was a category but couldn’t find it there either.

To be clear, events are not a category in themselves, that was just an analogy to help explain why you do not see the events page in the list of pages.

In any case it sounds like you’ve got a solution you’re happy with and with that in mind I’ll go ahead and close out this topic – of course if anything else should crop up please don’t hesitate to create a new post and let us know 🙂

Thanks again!

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